This week’s Classical Californian is Tim Keeler, Music Director for the San Francisco-based vocal ensemble Chanticleer. He’s selected a line up of seasonally appropriate works for voices, with songs for Winter, Advent and Christmas. The ensemble has returned to the West Coast, with concerts in California as they finish their national tour of their “A Chanticleer Christmas” program. We’ll hear early music of Josquin des Prez, a piece by contemporary British composer Joanna Marsh, and much more, with works by Bach, Poulenc, Arvo Pärt, George Walker, Komitas Vardapet, and (of course) Franz Biebl.
Josquin des Prez: “Praeter rerum serium” – Alamire
Arvo Pärt: “O Adonai” – Tallis Scholars
J.S. Bach: “Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen” from the Christmas Oratorio – Monteverdi Choir
Francis Poulenc: “Hodie Christus natus est” – Polyphony
Joanna Marsh: “In Winter’s House” – Tenebrae
George Walker: “Blow, blow, thou winter wind” - Chanticleer
Komitas Vardapet: “Barekhosutyamb” – Chanticleer
Franz Biebl: Ave Maria – Chanticleer
